Town Creek is a stream in
Georgia
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, and is a tributary of
Tesnatee Creek Tesnatee Creek is a stream in Georgia, and is a tributary of the Chestatee River. The creek is approximately long. file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/
''Tesnatee'' is a name derived fro ...
, which in turns is a tributary of the
Chestatee River The Chestatee River (variant spellings Chestatie, Chestetee, Chostatee, Chosteta, Chestotee; none in modern use) is a file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/ river in the Appalachian Mountain ...
. The creek is approximately long.
[ file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/FileGDB101/]
Course
Town Creek
rises in northwestern
White County, just south of where
State Route 348 turns north into
Union County, at the north end of
Tesnatee Gap in
Raven Cliffs Wilderness
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.
The creek heads south for approximately 3.6 miles, picking up two unnamed branches from the east on the way, before it first meets with White Creek coming from the east, an unnamed branch from the west, then Turner Creek, also coming from the east, before it crosses
U.S. Route 129
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east of Turners Corner. Town Creek continues to the south for approximately 5.6 miles, joining with 2 more unnamed branches from the west and one from the east, before its confluence with Glade Branch and then Jenny Creek. The creek flows into Tesnatee Creek about 1.5 miles further south, southwest of
Cleveland
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.
Sub-watershed details
The creek
watershed
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and associated waters is designated by the
United States Geological Survey
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as sub-
watershed
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* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
HUC 031300010503, is named the Town Creek sub-watershed, and drains an area of approximately 26 square miles northwest of Cleveland, and northeast of the Chestatee River.
See also
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Water Resource Region
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South Atlantic-Gulf Water Resource Region
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Apalachicola basin
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References
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Town Creek (Chestatee River) Town Creek is a stream in Georgia, and is a tributary of Tesnatee Creek, which in turns is a tributary of the Chestatee River. The creek is approximately long. file geodatabase (GDB) at ftp://rockyftp.cr.usgs.gov/vdelivery/Datasets/Staged/Hydro/Fi ...
Rivers of White County, Georgia